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The Birth and Death of the Author - A Multi-Authored History of Authorship in Print (Hardcover)
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The Birth and Death of the Author - A Multi-Authored History of Authorship in Print (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Auto/Biography Studies
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The Birth and Death of the Author is a work about the changing
nature of authorship as a concept. In eight specialist
interventions by a diverse group of the finest international
scholars it tells a history of print authorship in a set of author
case studies from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century. The
introduction surveys the prehistory of print authorship and sets
the historical and theoretical framework that opens the discussion
for the seven succeeding chapters. Engaging particularly with the
history of the materials and technology of authorship it places
this in conversation with the critical history of the author up to
and beyond the crisis of Barthes' 'Death of the Author'. As a
multi-authored history of authorship itself, each subsequent
chapter takes a single author or work from every century since the
advent of print and focuses in on the relationship between the
author and the reader. Thus they explore the complexities of the
concept of authorship in the works of Thomas Hoccleve and John
Lydgate (Andrew Galloway, Cornell University), William Shakespeare
and Christopher Marlowe (Rory Loughnane, University of Kent), John
Taylor, "the Water Poet" (Edel Semple, University College Cork),
Samuel Richardson (Natasha Simonova, University of Oxford), Herman
Melville (and his reluctant scrivener 'Bartleby') (William E.
Engel, Sewanee, The University of the South), James Joyce (Brad
Tuggle, University of Alabama), and Grant Morrison (Darragh Greene,
University College Dublin).
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